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Title: New, rare and beautiful plants
Identifier: CAT31284903 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Siebrecht & Wadley; U. S. Tropical Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) New Rochelle Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Wisconsin Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: New Rochelle, N. Y. : Siebrecht & Son
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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20 SIEBRECHT & SON, NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. Oncidium Tigrinum. Tiger Orchid. This curiously striped Mexican Orchid blossoms profusely toi" a month or more during late autumn and winter, filling the houses with a rich, violet-like fragrance. The flower-spikes are sometimes 3 feet long, branched, and covered with large rich yellow and brown flowers. They are beautiful for cutting, and the plants blossom so freely that they are very brilliant when in full bloom. Of easy culture. Our stock is fine. $1.50 to $3.50.j Oncidium varicosum. Golden Butterfly Orchid. In the great Oncidium family, which in- cludes every conceivable shade of yellow, there is no brighter species than this. The long, graceful, wavy sprays contain from 8 to 30 elegant flowers of attractive shape in the purest, brightest golden yellow. The plant is profuse-flowering, easy to grow, and the rich color of its odd flowers makes it of especial value. $2.50 to $5. For other fine Oncidiums, see General Collection. Peristeria elata. Dove Orchid. Holy Ghost Flower. A remarkable plant of striking habit and most peculiar structure. Its tall flower- stems bear fragrant, cupped, waxen flowers of shining white. In the center of each large flower the inner divisions are so shaped as to distinctly resemble in outline a white dove poised on outspread wings. The lip and wings of the flower are some- times spotted with purple. The plant flowers from June to September, the long flower-spikes continuing to develop flowers for 6 or 7 weeks. The "El Spirito Santo" of Spain. $2.50 to $5. Vanda teres. Vine Orchid. A climbing species of singular habit and striking beauty of flower. It is not com- mon in collections, although its culture is simple. The racemes point upward and bear from 3 to 6 brilliant flowers, each 3 inches or more across. The ground-color is deep, rich rose, veined with yellow and blotched with crimson. Flowers from May to September. $2.50 and upward.
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Peristeria elata, Holy Ghost Flower. General Collection of Orchids—continued. DENDROBIUM Phalaenopsis. Nothing has been inti'oduced of late can in any way surpass this beautiful Dendrobe. Its habit of free and abundant flowering and its graceful sprays of very showy yet delicate flowers make it of extra value, both for cut blooms and exhibition purposes. $3 up. D. Pierardii. Creamy white or pink, with primrose lip. $1. D. — latifolium. $3..50. D. primulinum. Large, shell-shaped; pink- ish white. $2. D. — giganteum. $3.50. D. suavissimum. $2. D. superbienSi Light purple, shaded brown. $3.r)0. D. thyrsiflorum. Waxen white, with golden orange lip, regularly set upon rich, droop- ing spikes. .$1. D. tortile. Pale yellow, suffused with pur- plish rose. $2.50. DENDROBIUM tortile roseum. $2.50. D. Wardianum. A species of striking beauty, with large flowers, sometimes to the num- ber of 30 in twos and threes on a long stem. Sepals, petals and lip are white, tipped with magenta. The base of the lip is bright orange, with deep crimson-spotted throat. $2. D. — giganteum. $10. DENDROCHILUM Cobbiana. $1.50. D. filiformis. Of graceful habit, with flower- spikes 8 to 10 inches in length, covered with hundreds of deliciously-scented min- iature flowers of a light straw color. Blooms in winter, and the flowers remain a long time in perfection. $3. D. glumaceum. Delicately scented green- ish white flowers in long sprays that droop gracefully. The plant has a thick crown of beautiful leaves; is grown in pots. $2. EPIDENDRUM. We offer only the choicest species in this extensive genus. They are all of very luxuriant, rapid growth and easily cultivated. E. atropurpureum. Dark browu, white and reddish purple. $2. E. — roseum. Lip is rose-colored. $3. E. aurantiacum. Cinnabar-red; lip orange, penciled with crimson. $2. E. bicornutum. Two-horned Orchid. This beautiful and chaste white Orchid produces its delightfully scented flowers about Christmas. $1.50. E. ciliare. Highly scented, fringed white flowers. $1. E. cinnabarinum. Orange-red. $3.50. E. cochleatum. $1.50. E. crassifolium. Rose-colored flowers. $1.50. E. fragrans. $2. E. imperator. $4. E. maculatum. $2.50.

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